Archive for the ‘Bangkok’ Category
Tantara Health Spa Pathumwan Princess Hotel – Bangkok
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Stairway leading to Spa (image credit: Pathumwan Princess Hotel)
Pathumwan Princess Hotel
444 Phayathai Road
BTS- National Stadium
Tel. 02-216-3700 ext.14
Opening Hours: 9am-11pm Daily
www.tantaraspa.com
Sumi Grand Sukhumvit 16 – Bangkok
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Main Dining Room
Sumi Grand Sukhumvit Soi 16
199/9 Soi Sukhumvit 16
Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110
Tel. 02 663 3114
www.sumiyakiniku.com
This is the main branch of this small chain, located in the heart of the Sukhumvit Road area off Soi Asoke on Sukhumvit soi 16. It has recently moved from its Sukhumvit Soi 24 location to this larger space on Sukhumvit Soi 16. It is again, as all the outlying branches, very reasonably priced and catering mainly to a Thai clientele. You may bring your own wine.
Corkage: 100 baht. Asahi Beer is available on draught.
Prawns grilling
Rock Lobster on the grill
Vegetables ready to be grilled
Le Beaulieu Closes, Set To Reopen at Athénée Tower Soon – Bangkok
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Artist’s rendering of the new Le Beaulieu’s entrance
Le Beaulieu Restaurant’s Closing Party at Soi 19, 4 January 2012; the restaurant will reopen soon at Athénée Tower, 63 Wireless Road, Tel. + 66 (0)83 777 5336.
Some wine was spilled in anticipation of Herve Frerard’s new Le Beaulieu at Athénée Tower on Wireless Road.
Hors d‘oeuvres at Le Beaulieu’s closing party 4 January 2012
Sumi Sumi Asian Grill, Yakiniku Buffet, The Mall Ngamwongwan – Bangkok
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Sumi Sumi Asian Grill
The Mall Ngamwongwan
30/39-50 5th Floor
Ngamwongwan Road, Bangken
Nonthaburi, 10110
Tel. 02-5500321
www.sumiyakiniku.com
Above all you will be please with the very, fresh seafood served here, with a selection of hot and spicy sauces to choose from. River prawns, prawns, squid, Wagyu beef, New Zealand lamb, Kalbi beef are all very good. You order it, they bring it to the table, you grill it.
River prawns
Rock lobster
The grill
Sumalai Thai Traditional Massage – Bangkok
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
logo copyright sumalai massage
Sumalai Massage
159/14 Sukhumvit 55 Thonglor 7-9
Opposite Thonglor 8 Wattana BKK
Opening Hours: 9.00 – 24.00
Tel. +66 (0)2392 1663
Royal Thai Massage or Ayurveda Massage
Royal Thai Massage or Ayurveda Massage is unique and focus mainly on treatment. Emphasis on courtesy and ability to secure an outcome to Organs and tissue that is deep by increasing blood circulation and activity of nerve.
The massage is used in the palace. Thus, styles must be polite and usually by fingers and palms only pressing massage on the body (friction massage) not only for weight control and a weight in the direction of the force properly discharged, still with the soft focus.
Sumalai is one of the best Thai traditional massage available in Bangkok. The massage therapists I consider to be excellent to good in this order are: Na, Gee, Ja, Jan, Sei, and Mai.
Traditional Classic Thai Massage 60 min 200 Bht. 90 min 300 Bht. 120 min 400 Bht.
Foot Reflexology Massage 60 min 250 Bht. 90 min 400 Bht. 120 min 500 Bht.
Head-Neck-Shoulders Massage 60 min 200 Bht. 90 min 300 Bht. 120 min 400 Bht.
Foot Massage & Head, Neck, Shoulder, Back 250 Bht. 350 Bht. 450 Bht.
Aroma Touch Therapy 60 min 600 Bht. 90 min 900 Bht. 120 min 1200 Bht.
Thai Heritage Herbal Compress 60 min 500 Bht.
Body Scrub 60 min 500 Bht.
Facial Massage 60 min 500 Bht.
Surface Restaurant, Sukhumvit Soi 53 – Bangkok
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Surface
107 Soi Sukhumvit 53
Kwang Klongton-Nua,
Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Tel. 02 258 2858
Opening Hours: Lunch: 11:30am-2pm; Dinner 6pm-11:30pm
Credit Cards: Visa
The restaurant is difficult to find, as the main entrance is in the rear of a large parking lot at the dead end of Thonglor Soi 11 and from the soi 53 side it is only accessible by foot or bicycle. Once you find the entrance, and wind through a narrow passageway that leads to a lovely garden with day beds stretched out on one side, vegetables growing in wooden boxes amongst white umbrellas on the other, and then of course, the restaurant itself you will find the experience a pleasant surprise. Again, Thai-style bars (this time two of them) one outside and one within, with nary a bar-stool to be found and no real purpose for their existence. Jazz is playing softly as background music, and the whole scene is quite idyllic.
The menu is brief and that is all right, but the choice of starters, for no particular reason were not very appealing while the main courses in distinct opposition, were enticing enough to order them all. The predominantly California wine list, it seems, was chosen haphazardly by someone who fancied these unappealing wines for some unknown reason. I have rarely come across any of these selections on other wine lists in this city.
Following is a list of a few of the reasonably priced dishes:
Roasted game hen 320
Tenderloin on truffle risotto and black trumpet sauce 470
Tongue and cheek – ox tongue and veal cheek, sauce bordelaise 350
Braised lamb shank with parsnip puree 360
Monkfish saffron sauce 420
Linguini Crab tossed with tomatoes and salsa verde 490
Scallops with celeriac and Kielbasa 670
Waffle and berries pudding 180
Beccofino Gala Christmas & New Year’s Dinners – Bangkok
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Paris Bangkok French Restaurant, Christmas & New Year’s Menus – Bangkok
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Uncle John Restaurant, International, Thai Cooking – Bangkok
Friday, December 16th, 2011
Uncle John
279/2 Suanphlu Soi 8 Bangkok, Thailand
Tel. 081 373 3865
Opening Hours: 6:30-10:30pm daily
Corkage Charge: 100 baht
Uncle John’s is a unique concept in that no one has up to now, been brave enough to dare to try it. Offering both Thai street food and up-market western cuisine similar to what you might find at the nearby Five Star Sukothai Hotel on Sathorn Road, where John, the chef/owner works during the day in the kitchen of the main dining room. The cooking in this humble, revamped street stall is honest, good, and reasonably priced. French and Italian, Thai and Indian dishes are all professionally presented. In the evening, he works alone with one helper that pops in and out while performing other duties, in the open air in front of the shop-house in a minimally equipped, although well organized makeshift kitchen in front of his twenty-odd seat dining area where customers sit on small, hard stools and wait for the food to arrive, which understandably can take some time at peak hours. How long he will be able to keep up this pace is questionable, but he is a young man that is obviously, not afraid of work or long hours.
Kick off with a mojito, not too sweet and even a bit on the tart side, unusual to find in this country, or a cold bottle of Leo, Chang or Singha. We opted for a lobster bisque, sea bass and chicken masala, finishing with a banana crepe with vanilla ice cream and a chocolate tartine, the two desserts available.
They offer a small selection of red and white wines by the bottle and red & white house wine by glass and corkage is only a mere 100 baht.
Kitchen at Uncle John
Dining Room 
Mojito
Lobster Bisque
Chicken Masala
Sea Bass
